Frère J'Accuse

“What we’re facing now in this country is inhumane, and it should not be happening, We are all created in God’s image, and this is not his plan for his children. So to have someone sitting in authority and dictating what’s going on, and treating people as though they’re inhuman, that’s not of God.”

whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct?

Not exclusively, thankfully, though it looks like Ascension is the only other

Tangential to EV's good work: it's almost impossible to imagine a major network running a newscast like Morley Safer's at any point in the past 25 years. In fact, it's hard to imagine them not condemning anyone else for saying it

Yet another reminder of progressives' profound institutional collapse

Saw a 1-star review of an Amy Clampitt collection on goodreads this morning and have been seeing red ever since

Some of these projects (incl. MN's) aren't green at all, as the article notes, but they are all based in blue states

We've got sports bars but what we really need is sports ice cream parlors

Always a fun activity this time of year

You excepted of course!

In other words, trump has engineered a larger wealth redistribution scheme than any currently proposed by democrats

WSJ reporting that tariff revenue, which supposedly was to have reduced national debt, will now go to farmers, the most coddled class in America, to compensate for the sales they lost due to tariffs

Obviously a horrible outcome, but I'll admit feeling a small satisfaction in the intentionality of donating to my 15-20 cultural/environmental orgs (and the joy of having finances to so dispose)

Increasingly, taxes are for unspeakable horrors while we must privately fund the things that make life in this country at all pleasant or fulfilling

A lot of bands w good new albums skipping the twin cities this year. Kinda fucked up

Soon

Surely no coincidence that now, as teachers are more immiserated than ever before, there is spurt of shows about how they're having a goofy fun time

The vaguely center-left corporation craves the rod

The strange thing here is the underlying assumption that the church *isn't* currently following neo-nazis

Incredible to see. They'll say Judge has the better all-round stats, but what Raleigh has done for his team is more

There's a dangerous alternative timeline in which I acquire a hand press printing apparatus and moveable type. I think we've dodged that bullet in this timeline though

That's a beaut

I'm not afraid to admit it. Yes. As a soulful white boy I would like to play "ghost of yōtei"

I despise the disjointed ai voice menards ads

all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable—they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

One of the most charming things about being an academic was that everyone had their own unique favorite Moby-Dick chapter, so now whenever I see a quote I can think "ah, z's favorite"

What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish

"September," Joanne Kyger (1971?)

If only the liberals were a bit more mindful of the social fabric, we would all be more unified in the regime's dismantling of it